Two die from Covid in SVG
PRIME MINISTER, Dr Ralph Gonsalves has cautioned the nation about an upsurge in COVID-19 cases which resulted in two recent deaths.
St Vincent and the Grenadines recorded over 100 deaths in the height of the COVID pandemic in 2020-2021.
Speaking on the Issue At Hand programme on WEFM on Sunday, August 4, 2024, the prime minister revealed that two more persons had died from COVID.
The first was an 87 year old person on August 1.The following day August 2, another COVID death was recorded of another elderly person who was a resident at the Lewis Punnett Home.
Gonsalves said that there had been 125 reported cases for the year so far.
Of this number, 89 cases were recorded in the month of July.
Additionally, 12 COVID-19 cases have been discovered among persons in emergency shelters.
These persons were displaced due to the passage of Hurricane Beryl which hammered St Vincent and the Grenadines as a Category 4 Hurricane on July 1, 2024.
Gonsalves said to prevent the spread of the virus, persons at shelters who present with symptoms, are removed from those shelters.
He encouraged Vincentians to take every precaution to protect themselves from contracting the virus.
COVID first surfaced in China in 2019 and is responsible for over seven million deaths worldwide, according to data from Worldometer. As of April this year the tracker was no longer updating on the virus as a majority of countries had stopped reporting.
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